On Dec 14, 8:35pm, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
}
} For example, if I enter
}
} compadd -- 1 2 -1 -2 -3 0
}
} The completions come out in the order:
}
} -3 -2 -1 0 1 2
}
} But what I really want is the order I gave.
"compadd" is actually one of the better-documented bits of the completion
system. Some of the "support builtins" aren't documented at all.
} How can I tell compadd not to sort the completions?
You need to put them in a named unsorted group.
compadd -V numbers 1 2 -1 -2 -3 0
Group names end up being referenced via the "tag" slot in the six-part
completion context string, e.g., with the compadd above you might use
zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:numbers' list-colors '=-*=7'
to show negative numbers in reverse video. However, to make that work
you have to initialize the style mechanism by calling _description:
local expl
_description -V numbers expl 'Some Numbers'
compadd "$expl[@]" - 1 2 -1 -2 -3 0
The _description function does all the style processing and fills in
the $expl variable with the corresponding compadd options. The example
in the zsh manual isn't as clear as it could be because it uses
_description files expl file
compadd "$expl[@]" - "$files[@]"
and although expl in the _description call maps to $expl in the compadd
call, the two uses of "files" are unrelated.